Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval – Monitoring or testing the progress of recording
Reexamination Certificate
2006-07-18
2006-07-18
Wong, Kim (Department: 2627)
Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval
Monitoring or testing the progress of recording
C360S075000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07079339
ABSTRACT:
A method for secondary-actuator failure-detection and recovery in a dual-stage actuator disk drive includes running a calibration test by the servo control processor and measuring the position of the secondary actuator relative to its neutral position in response to the calibration test. The secondary-actuator failure detection and calibration test can be performed on a regular schedule or at selected times, such as at disk drive start-up. With the primary actuator maintaining the read/write head on a data track in track-following mode, the servo control processor generates a test signal to the secondary actuator and receives a relative-position signal (RPS) from the relative-position sensor in response to the test signal. The test comprises two measurements: a measurement of the secondary actuator static characteristics, and a measurement of the secondary actuator dynamic characteristics.
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Semba Tetsuo
White Matthew T.
Yamamoto Satoshi
Berthold Thomas R.
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies - Netherlands B.V.
Slavitt Mitchell
Wong Kim
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